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moniss

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Sat Jan 10, 2026, 06:08 PM Saturday

I have seen videos over the years of [View all]

cops being stupid enough to hang onto cars that are "getting away" after traffic stops or standing in front of a car because they think they can make the driver "obey" etc. and they think they will defy the world and make the car stop. It is the same stupidity that is shown when a cop gets in front of a vehicle or near to the front thinking it will be a good outcome. If the vehicle moves the cop has purposely left themselves with only three choices. Either get out of the way, shoot the driver or let the vehicle go and then pursue. We know cops and goons like ICE-American Gestapo are all about "you will submit" and so simply letting the car go and pursuing is not in their thinking. Their thinking is "How dare you or anything defy me. I am almighty because of my badge." Superman syndrome to a degree.

In the case of the Minneapolis shooting they did not need to try to grab Ms. Good from the vehicle in the manner they did. They could have walked up and in a non threatening way said to her "I need you to turn your vehicle around so that it is in line with the direction of traffic." Then allow her to do so. The goon who walked behind the vehicle had the license plate number and vehicle description so if she did flee and they wanted her they could have gone to her home.

But instead the first goon chose to rush the vehicle and dramatically escalate by trying to yank the door open while screaming at Renee Good who was captured on audio trying to verbally deescalate the situation. The goon who murdered her was fully out of control for something that was a traffic situation. That two of his shots entered from the driver's side window clearly shows that he was in no danger when he fired them. The first shot was barely from the front and no evidence of him being hit by the vehicle has been shown. In fact a good argument could be made that his fumbling with his phone and positioning to shoot the first shot took longer than if he would have simply gotten himself out of the way.

But we see this in all aspects of the ICE-American Gestapo and their tactics. Display massive numbers, masked, heavily armed, extreme aggression in all instances towards everyone including bystanders, yelling and screaming which disorients people, physical violence as a tool and "message", refusal to look at and verify identification, refusal to disclose the whereabouts of those detained etc.

They decry and deny any accountability when their well known tactics of fear, violence and disorientation elicit a fear response and actions in the people they direct such tactics at. It is as illogical as thinking your physical presence is going to hang onto a vehicle and make it stop because you are dragging your feet or standing in the path, to any degree, as though you are Superman.

Smashing out the side windows of a vehicle is not only dangerous to the occupants it is also terrifying and the fact that sometimes people will respond with the nearly automatic reaction to flee is not some weird phenomena. The panic/flight response happens all the time every day across the land.

But with goons you don't get intelligence. You just get goons. Goons on full display across America who think they are Superman with most of them lacking any ability or desire to be anything else. Completely self satisfied in beating up grandmothers and traumatizing children. Whatever soul they had they sold or gave away and now what is left inside is the clear definition of racist, evil goons. May the gallows in the Hague await you like your kindred spirits who came before, who inspire you now and whose tactics you embrace.

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